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- vineyardvine, on 07/16/2009, -1/+112For those who don't want to click next 9 times:
10. Australia
9. USA
8. Greece
7. Germany
6. Finland
5. Estonia
4. Norway
3. Denmark
2. Sweden
1. Netherlands - indyGuy, on 07/17/2009, -1/+34Seriously, a graph would be much simpler than 10 pages of copy...
- Haoie, on 07/16/2009, -1/+17Finland, Norway, and Sweden?
They sure got their bases covered. - inactive, on 07/17/2009, -1/+13Many thanks. I hate that website with a passion.
- zomgflamer, on 07/17/2009, -2/+14God damn illegals, they tookerr height.
- yocouchdigga, on 07/17/2009, -2/+13*wink, wink
(get it? he meant DRUGS! lol)
*leaps out of window into oncoming traffic* - roodammy44, on 07/17/2009, -1/+11Don't forget Denmark.
Viking countries have got it all, apparently. - bixby1, on 07/16/2009, -1/+11I'm part German and part Danish, and 100% height-hosed.
- Findox, on 07/17/2009, -2/+12Damn give her a basketball and teach her volleyball. Free college education.
- trousercustard, on 07/17/2009, -3/+12I can attest to the fact that the Netherlands is indeed full of tall people - I am 6' 1" and spent my entire time at a music festival there looking at the back of people's heads. Thankfully we had popped into Amsterdam en route to stock up on supplies, so I was more than able to keep myself amused...
- Gsicht, on 07/17/2009, -3/+12Sensible units:
10. Australia: 177.292 cm
9. USA: 177.546 cm
8. Greece: 178.054 cm
7. Germany: 178.054 cm
6. Finland: 178.308 cm
5. Estonia: 179.07 cm
4. Norway: 179.578 cm
3. Denmark: 180.594 cm
2. Sweden: 181.61 cm
1. Netherlands: 182.88 cm - doublefelix, on 07/17/2009, -1/+10On one page: http://tinyurl.com/n5booz
- tomasmarc, on 07/17/2009, -2/+11OK, so this is an article that can be found on Wikipedia, divided into 10 pages of annoying. You go again, askmeh.com.
- BottledViolence, on 07/17/2009, -1/+10The average height of a list appears to be growing too. Last I checked, you could fit ten tiny paragraphs on a single page.
- marlow4, on 07/17/2009, -2/+10Don't they all have universal health care except #9?
- iamchewy, on 07/16/2009, -3/+11"[With regards to the Netherlands] once again, a Northern European country appears at the top here, so we have to assume that there is a strong genetic component in this result." Except that the Dutch were some of the shortest people in the world in the mid-19th century, which shows that average heights of populations is a better gauge of the general standard of living of those populations than anything else.
- BigVi, on 07/17/2009, -4/+12Surprisingly the top 3 all have universal health care. Must be hard.
- vizerei, on 07/17/2009, -1/+7?
- Countess666, on 07/17/2009, -1/+6why? your diet is poor, your healthcare is good but not available to most of the population, and a not insignificant amount of people cant eat 3 health meal a day 7 days a week, and a even larger percentage choice not to.
to a child all those factors are detrimental to growth. - sankaroms, on 07/17/2009, -1/+5I hate the word tall.... b'coz i am short :) lol
- farboo, on 07/17/2009, -1/+5I think you're supposed to be lederhosed. At least that's the stereotype.
- Noworkday, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4Wonder where are Japs and Chinese standing in that list?
- kalosnycta, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3Because they have an excellent pre-natal health care system, and great health care overall. It's socialized, not that should be a surprise.
- I know this because I read the New Yorker article talking about the change in Dutch height, and how this was an indicator of the general health of a society, a metric which includes the government's effectiveness in spending its money to fight disease.
The researcher being profiled in the article harped on the Dutch's former shortness (at one time, they were the shortest people in Europe) to show this was NOT 100% genetic, but related to how the Dutch chose to treat disease on a policy level - adodds, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3Ummm I don't know if you LIVE in the USA... but I do, and the people here are nowhere near as tall as they are in Europe. I'm 6'1" and I feel short next to a lot of people in Europe. I've seen many women here that are a good three or four inches taller than me. When I'm at home, in the US, I almost never see a girl taller than me, and when I do, it's almost a guarantee that she's on the school volleyball team.
- Duffle, on 07/17/2009, -1/+4Eight?
- heliumflash, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3Greece? Every Greek person I've met has been short.
- Hellahulla, on 07/17/2009, -1/+4But then you'd have ten banner ads (or what not) on one page :(
- ducttape36, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3this is why i love digg. saw that it was askmen, went straight to the comments to find out what the top 10 were. im not going to reward them with click hits for poor web design.
- jfoobar, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3Another person who was shocked that Croatia was not only not on the list, but not pretty damn close to the top of it.
OTOH, I wonder how many countries in the world that they lack reliable average height data on and therefore were not even considered for the article. - matude, on 07/18/2009, -0/+3Oh I wasn't implying you being negative at all. The "even them" part is just always kinda funny because Estland's image in the eyes of the world is still pretty much a post-soviet cheap labor dirty dangerous Eastern-Europe bomb-hole one :D I don't blame anyone at all for it though.
But yeah, we're doing good, all things considering. Gotta make up for the 50+ years of stagnation somehow.
@heliumflash: Well to be honest, people of China and India are not exactly the tallest in the world, now are they? When I went to smaller towns in China I saw easily all over the heads of everybody on the streets, I must have looked like a friendly pale blue eyed blond giant to them when everybody waved me. - Hellahulla, on 07/17/2009, -1/+3Been living in Finland a while. I can certainly say that all my male friends are taller than me ... I don't think there is an exception. However they seem to have a lot shorter women then my home country did.
- radix2, on 07/17/2009, -1/+3Australia has universal health care too. But then, I am 6'3" so am an outlier there. I wonder if Australia's postion there has anything to do with the massive influx of people from less developed countries in the last 2 decades and more (post the despicable "White Australia" policies of the 50's and 60's)....
- Xvash2, on 07/18/2009, -0/+25'2"? What the *****? Your eight-year old kid is taller than my 57-year old mother.
- msles59130, on 07/17/2009, -6/+8Go USA! My family is doing our part to bring up the average height. I am 5'9", my husband is 6'9", and even my eight year old daughter is already 5'2" :)
- ptFoe, on 07/17/2009, -2/+4what is remarkable is that in the early 1800s Holland used to be one of the shortest countries in Europe.
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In the late nineteenth century, the Netherlands was a land renowned for its short population, but today it has the second tallest average in the world, with young men averaging 183 cm (6'0 ft) tall and in Europe are only shorter than the peoples of the Dinaric Alps (a section largely within the former Yugoslavia), where males average 185.6 cm (6 ft 1.1 in) tall. The Dinarians and Dutch are now well known in Europe for extreme tallness. In Africa, the Maasai, Dinka and Tutsi populations are known for their tallness, with some reports indicating an average male height of up to 190 cm (almost 6 ft 3).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height - KMye, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2@matude - I'm aware of the Estonia/Finland connection, and while my Finnish German connection was made here in the US last generation, wasn't saying anything negative about its people. I had just assumed that since their economy had been devastated by Soviet occupation, they'd probably be suffering from similar problems to a lot of the rest of Eastern Europe in that region. But again, after just another minute of research, looks like I was flat wrong, and that they've been doing very well since the fall (with the exception of this economic downturn)...and by the by, they are paying for universal health care, etc. with a low flat tax somewhere around 20% (go figure)...
- brickbat, on 07/17/2009, -2/+4I expected Croatians to be on that list. Every one I have met has been over 6'
- yacks, on 07/17/2009, -1/+3think breasts.. hopefully he's referring to the female variety
- ThandarGor, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2Cause the Netherlands has such impressive Mountains?
- Countess666, on 07/17/2009, -1/+3its an average.
you probably saw some of those ancient houses in Amsterdam and in your mind compared them to the villas in Californian or something.
but those villas are only a very small percentage of the population while those ancient houses in Amsterdam are usually just student homes, and almost all of the people living in it go on to live in 2 story houses or flats.
and the US has more rich people to be sure, but the US also has a lot of very poor people, while the Netherlands has no person that cant eat 3 meals a day 7 days a week or go to the doctor when sick.
the same goes for every other northern European nation.
that has a lot of repercussions on the average health of a nation. even if you have top of the line healthcare, but your maid, or the people you meet at wallmart do not, you still get exposed to a lot more deceases, and to a growing child, that means resources have to spend to fight it, while those could have been used to grow taller.
there was a article on digg about it a year ago or so... - KMye, on 07/19/2009, -0/+2@matude - Considering it, even if I wasn't intending anything negative, it still wasn't right to make assumptions I very apparently hadn't the knowledge to make. At least with my ethnic background, probably should have made effort long before this thread to know a little more about your country...and thanks for making me do so.
So, I've been slowly starting to plan a Scandinavian holiday for a bit, which probably won't happen for another year or two, but if I could ask you, aside from Estonia, which I'm assuming would be a (looks like to me, from a little more research) deserved affirmative from you, do you think taking some time to go through Latvia and Lithuania would would be worth it as well? Any can't-miss spots/regions in any of the three (especially for a photographer?).
cheers - nsdjoe, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2We're #9! We're #9! We're #9!
- matude, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2"even them" ^^.
@KMye: I know it's a long shot, but if you have extended families in Germany and Finland, chances are you also have some ties to Estonia.
Finns and Estonians are pretty much the same people, or at least were before, and Estonia was under German rule for hundreds of years. If there's a connection in your family tree between Finns and Germans, then they might go through Estonia. For example most of the trade from Germany to Finland went through Estonian ports etc.
Both these parties were most likely to meet each-other in Estonia, than anywhere else in the world. It might of course be a random coincidence and your families were connected in a different way, but I'm just saying there's a possibility, if you're interested. - Cimlite, on 07/17/2009, -1/+3Can you spot the 4 problems with this map?
http://www.joeydevilla.com/wordpress/wp-content/up ...
Come on America, get with the times. Metric system ftw. :) - Rotzooi, on 07/17/2009, -1/+2They are standing right there, but can't see them behind those tall Dutchmen.
- jerrykew, on 07/17/2009, -1/+2The height increased after the invention of the bicycle.
- inactive, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1I did a semester in China, and there were about 50 other exchange students from Europe. The Swedish/Norwegian/Dutch guys were by far the tallest. So I believe it.
Kind of surprised to see Estonia on that list, though. - adodds, on 07/17/2009, -2/+3I spose I should move to the Netherlands... 6'1" and I think I've dated all the tall American men. Time to move onto those other countries.
- Rockkybox, on 07/19/2009, -0/+1But at what point are they unaligned?
- Swillys, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1Yeah I was thinking that. I'm 6'4" and felt short in Croatia. So many of the men there are really tall.
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